D2C Games Reveals Product Line-Up, D2Comics

D2C Games, a start-up mobile and PC developer founded by Glu Mobile Founder Scott Orr, formally announced its product line-up today. The company's products place specific emphasis on social gaming, and episodic content.

The company also announced its D2Comics initiative, led by a collaboration with comic book writer Steve Niles(City of Others, The Cryptics). Niles' Strange Cases will be a multi-format initiative, with traditional comics, a digital download, and an episodic game all in the works.

"Working with D2C Games and Bigdog Games has been a genuinely creative collaboration," Niles said in a statement. "I've had the ability to really take my vision and literally translate it to the precise interactive version. D2C has supported and trusted me to push the concept from beginning to end, which is a rarity in the gaming industry. This partnership is sure to continue to push out cool episodic titles."

The company also announced a series of "RTS Sports" titles called entitled Chalkboard Sports. Specific platforms were not announced, but D2C intends to publish for "a variety of next-gen console and handheld platforms as well as 3G mobile devices and personal computers."

"D2C is committed to taking the casual game segment in a new direction by making games that are easy to pick up and play, tuned to maximize the fun factor, and socially connect players together both in game play and user driven content," Orr said in a statement.